PRECISION AGRICULTURE SUMMIT

THE RED RIVER VALLEY RESEARCH CORRIDOR & NORTH DAKOTA FARMERS UNION
JANUARY 16 & 17, 2012 -- ND Farmers Union Conference Center - Jamestown, ND
2 Day Agenda

Day One - January 16

8:45 – 9:30       Registration and continental breakfast

9:30 – 9:50       Welcome and Opening Remarks

• Dr. Delore Zimmerman, Executive Director, Red River Valley Research Corridor
• Woody Barth, President of North Dakota Farmers Union
• Dr. Paul Gunderson, Director, Dakota Precision Ag Center at Lake Region State College
• Dr. Sreekala Gopalapillai Bajwa, Chair of Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at North Dakota State University

9:50 – 10:45       Keynote Speaker - Lowell Catlet, Futurist and Dean of the College of Agriculture at New Mexico State University (Sponsored by Ag Country Farm Credit Services)

10:45 – 11:00       Networking Break

11:00 – 12:00       Industry Solutions in Telematics: Communication from Office to Equipment

• John Nowatzki, North Dakota State University (Moderator)
• Shannon Cameron, AMS Regional Specialist, John Deere
• Bruce Ristau, Precision Farming Specialist, CNH Telematics
• Denton Schwiesow, US Sales Manager, Raven Industries
• Marlin Melander, ATS Product Management for AGCO

12:00 – 1:15       Lunch (in exhibition area)

1:15 – 1:45       U.S. Senator Kent Conrad

1:45 – 2:45       Equipment for Precision Applications

• Dr. Scott Shearer, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ohio State University (moderator)
• Darryl Justesen, Amity Technologies
• Denton Schwiesow, US Sales Manager, Raven Industries
• Guy Swanson - Exactrix

2:45 – 3:00       Networking Break

3:00 – 3:30       Featured Speaker - Future development in Precision, Geospatial, and Remote Sensing Technologies - Moving to Mobile!! Tracking your Farm on the Phone

• Lanny Faleide, CEO of Agri ImaGIS / Satshot

3:30 – 4:30       Critical Challenges and Obstacles to Mapping

• Shawn Kasperick, Simplot
• Kelly Sharpe- GK Technology Inc
• Paul Overby, Farmworks & SatShot
• Shannon Cameron, AMS Regional Specialist, John Deere

4:30 – 5:15       GPS & Guidance Technologies

• Paul Aakre, University of Minnesota - Crookston (Moderator)
• John Pointon, Omnistar
• Aaron Seifert, Precision Ag Technology Support Specialist, Ziegler CAT
• Shannon Cameron, AMS Regional Specialist, John Deere

5:15 – 6:30       Networking Social in Exhibition Area

Day Two - January 17

8:15 – 9:00       Registration and continental breakfast

9:00 – 9:15       Welcome and Opening Remarks

• Doug Goehring, Agriculture Commissioner, North Dakota Department of Agriculture
• Jasper Schneider, North Dakota State Director, USDA Rural Development

9:15 – 10:00       Keynote Speaker – The Economics of Precision Agriculture

• Terry Griffin, Associate Professor and Extension Economist, University of Arkansas

10:00 – 10:15       Networking Break

10:15 – 11:30       Producer and Practitioner Session

• Eric Halverson, Vice President or Technology at Black Gold Farms
• Gary Wagner, President of AWG Farms
• Paul Overby, Verdi-Plus
• Paul Backstrom

11:30 – 12:45       Lunch (in exhibition area)

12:45 – 1:45       Remote Sensing Applications Satellite - Aerial - UAV - ISS - Ground based - LIDAR

• Doug McDonald, Red River Valley Research Corridor (moderator)
• Maynard Herting, Executive Director of Unmanned Applications Institute International (UAII)
• Bob Nutsch, GIS Coordinator, State of North Dakota
• Doug Olsen, Associate Director, Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium
• John Nowatzki, Agricultural Machine Systems Specialist at North Dakota State University

1:45 – 2:45       Near Earth Sensors

• Panelists TBA

2:45 – 3:00       Closing session – Where do we go from here